Yearly Archives: 2005

Quick notes

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A few quick notes before I crash:

  1. I have a sinus headache migraine that would kill small animals. It’s been going on for about 4 hours now. Sleep will most likely elude me. Yay.
  2. I was able to find two swimsuits in size 16 that I’m relatively sure will keep people from mistaking me for a beached whale and trying to push me back into the water.
  3. I have both a new scanner and more RAM on order, whoo!
  4. We bought new wireless phones for the livingroom.
  5. The battery in the Neon is dead, carpooling continues.
  6. I’ve started repairing some of the comics in the archvie, making sure they have their copyright notices and that they’re optimized for web viewing. I’ve already trimmed around 300-400k from the file sizes and I’ve only gotten like the first 10 comics cleaned up. Those who are on dial-up should find the place is a little less painful in the near future.
  7. I think my teeth are trying to burrow through my gums to strangle my sinuses. They don’t appear to appreciate the headache either.

Hey, by the time you read this it’ll be August. (In fact, it’s August now!) Please vote on Top Web Comics! Oh, and happy August!

Two steps forward…

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So, Tuesday’s comic (a semi-serious one, for a change) is in the queue. That’s 36 hours before it needs to be there. That’s progress.

I have three half-sketched comics in my sketchbook now, which is also progress, except that my ages-old scanner is not Mac OS X Tiger compatible, so I’ve kinda stalled.

Today I’m going swimsuit shopping, and maybe to go get a new scanner. Otherwise a new scanner’s going on order tonight.

I’ve decided not to work on the website redesign until the queue is a bit more robust. It’ll give me a chance to mull over the CSS issues, too.

The suspense is killing me

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I know perfectly well that my grade won’t be up yet – it’d be insane to think my grade would be up today when class only ended on Wednesday…. still, I’m reloading the gradesite for PSU students about once an hour… no luck yet… dangit!

It’s like playing some warped slot machine – I really want to hit the 4.0 jackpot, I’m terrified I’m going to bust out with an A-, and so far all I’m getting is “free roll, try again”.

The problem is, I hate rewriting anything.

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I’ve got two comics half-done, but I haven’t finished them, because they’re on paper.

Paper. That white tree pulp stuff. That stuff that doesn’t respond to my Wacom pen.

I have to go clear my desk off and find my scanner and set it up and scan the paper comics. Then, I have to finish the paper comics.

Well, it means that for the first time, I have “originals”.

So, it’s done.

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My last class is finished.

My professor assures us that we’ve all passed.

I’d party but I’m too tired to do much more than eat a celebratory bowl of ice cream and sit like a lump on the sofa. Very shortly (once we’ve determined if Nighthawk’s car battery is dead) I’ll be going to bed.

All at once I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders and that the whole world is open to me… and also that I’ve lost a little something, not having class to go to anymore.

They say that these are not the best of times
But they’re the only times I’ve ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own
…
For we are always what our situations hand us
It’s either sadness or euphoria
(billy joel)

I’ve been assured that this will wear off… I’ve also been assured that just because I’m a Master Engineer I won’t necessarily be allowed to drive a train. (Apparently, Conductors do that. I pointed out that I’m mostly water and trace minerals, and they’re both pretty good conductors, but that was not enough.)

And despite fears that I won’t have enough to do, it looks like I’ll be pretty busy. A webcomic to re-buffer, a website to re-revise, my brother-in-law’s birthday / high school graduation party this weekend, Virginia Beach next week, visits from some ideaphiles the week after that, and so on and so forth. And then there’s the floor to finish in the 2nd bedroom and then bathrooms to remodel, etc. etc. it goes on and on. Still, graduation frees up about 10-20 hours a week of my time, so I should be a little more relaxed.

Next Monday my shift changes – I’ll be working 5 days a week for the first time in a few years, 10:30am-7:00pm. Very odd.

To all of you who’ve helped me stay sane these past three years, thank you!

I did it! It’s done.